InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Rin's Innocent Question ❯ The Baby Store RIN 2 ( Chapter 2 )

The Baby Store: RIQ 2
By: Morbia Acarella
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters. They just talk to me sometimes.

Thanks to Kira-chan for beta reading this chapter. *huggles*


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“Lord Sesshoumaru?”

“Yes Rin.”

“Can we visit the baby store?”

The lord of the west looked down at his ward and saw that she was dead serious. He didn't have a clue as to what she was talking about. It had been so long since she had first asked the questions about babies that it had left his mind completely. Frankly, at the time he didn't care how her grueling questions had ceased, just that they had, and therefore he had forgotten his explanation to her on the subject.

“What baby store?” asked the imp, voicing the question on his lord's mind.

“The store where babies come from, Master Jaken.”

“Foolish girl, that is not where babies come from,” huffed the imp.

“Yes they do,” replied the girl.

“No they don't, who ever told you that was a fool.”

Sesshoumaru actually agreed with the imp for once. Who in their right mind would have told her such a thing? Clearly whoever that person was, they were not of sound mind.

“Lord Sesshoumaru told me.”

`Damn.' He remembered now, the toad wasn't there.

“What!?” shrieked Jaken, “Lord Sesshoumaru would never say such a thing like that.”

“He did tell me that, Master Jaken.”

“You foolish child, stop telling such lies,” he said, raising his two headed staff to strike her in the head.

“EEEP!” Rin's eyes widened, “Lord Sesshoumaru!” she cried as she covered her head with her arms and ducked down.

“Jaken,” the youkai said in his usual stoic voice.

“Y..ye…yes my Lord?” stuttered the imp.

The lord of the west said nothing. He merely began walking toward the wide eyed little toad, letting his foot land on his stress relief's head; smashing him into the ground as if he were nothing more than a pebble to be stepped on. Then he continued walking as if nothing had happened.

“Wait for me, Lord Sesshoumaru!” cried the girl as she ran to catch up with her lord.

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Jaken wisely kept his moth shut for once, as he walked. He had been visiting the bottom of his lord's shoe a lot in the past month, and he was determined not to find out what his lord had stepped in today.

Rin chatted non-stop about the baby that would soon be traveling with them, and Jaken wanted nothing more than to bop her in the head to shut her up. The only thing stopping him was those damn shoes he was following, and the youkai who filled them.

Jaken stared at Rin, who was following close behind him, babbling about what the baby was going to look like, when he ran into something. He turned to look at the object when he saw his lord's golden eyes looking at him.

“Jaken,” the youkai said calmly.

“Yes lord Sesshoumaru?”

“Wait here,” Sesshoumaru replied. Then he turned on his heels and Jaken watched his lord leave, as he left him behind yet again.

As Sesshoumaru walked away, he got the distinct impression that Jaken was angry with him. The toad reeked of the scent; but there was nothing for it. He had something of more importance to take care of than bothered with that.

When the youkai emerged from the woods his half brother was there to greet him.

“What are you doing here, Sesshoumaru?” yelled InuYasha. Kagome and Shippou stood behind him.

“I'm not here to fight, InuYasha, I'm here to speak with your wench,” replied the youkai stoically.

Kagome and InuYasha responded at the same time.

“What?” said the hanyou utterly confused and Kagome cried, “Hey!” in annoyance at being called a “wench.”

“I have a matter that needs her assistance.”

“You're not getting near her,” InuYasha shot back, readying his sword.

“Oh,” said the youkai raising one eyebrow, “You want to do this the hard way?” Sesshoumaru then drew his sword. “Fine.”

“InuYasha!” hollered Kagome. "He said he wasn't here to fight.”

“I don't care, he's not getting near you,” he hollered back at her.

“We may as well find out what he wants. It wouldn't hurt to hear him out.”

InuYasha began to growl his protest, but Kagome gave him that glare he knew all too well. If he didn't let her find out what his brother wanted, he was going to eat dirt.

“Fine, but you're not going near him. You stay right here,” he barked at her and she shook her head “yes” in reply.

“What do you need, Sesshoumaru?” hollered Kagome.

“I need you to explain where babies come from.”

“What????!!!!” Kagome shrieked. `Didn't your parents ever have that talk with you. Come on, you're how old…? Centuries? And you're asking me, a human, where babies come from? Is he for real?' She looked over to InuYasha, whose expression mirrored her own and no doubt had the same thoughts going through his mind as well.

They all stood there in silence for what felt like hours, but was actually maybe two minutes, when Sesshoumaru looked over his shoulder towards the forest from which he had just emerged.

“Jaken,” he called.

InuYasha, Kagome, and Shippou watched as the little imp then walked out of the forest with a little girl in tow.

A wash of realization hit Kagome when she saw the little girl.

`That's the little girl who was following Sesshoumaru before.'

“Who's that?” asked the kitsune.

“Isn't she...” replied the hanyou.

“Yeah…” Kagome said, answering his question before he finished it. “I think he wants me to explain to her where babies come from.”

“What!? Why can't he do that? He's the one she's been following, not us,” he gripped.

“Because it isn't easy for a man to explain something like that to a little child.”

“So.”

Kagome sighed, “Then explain it to Shippou.”

InuYasha's eyes widened and he gasped and stuttered. “He already knows… don't you, Shippou,” InuYasha half-squeaked out.

“No, where do they come from InuYasha?” Shippou questioned, looking honestly perplexed. `Sorry InuYasha, I had to do it.'

Kagome ignored their antics and addressed the girl in front of her. “What's your name?” she asked as she bent down to the child's level.

The child looked up to her lord before she looked to Kagome. “Rin,” she replied.

“Do you know where babies come from?”

“A baby store,” she supplied dutifully.

“What? What moron told you that kid?” asked InuYasha.

“Lord Sesshoumaru told me.”

“Sesshoumaru?” questioned Kagome, and the three of them turned their heads to look at the lord all with raised eyebrows.

Sesshoumaru was sporting his normal look that neither confirmed nor denied that he had. He didn't like the looks he was getting from the three. So he turned around to avoid their gaze. Then it happened. InuYasha lost his mental battle. He didn't believe it at first; but when he saw the older youkai's reaction to the statement the girl made he knew it was true.

“Oi, Sesshoumaru. Is that what you would have told me if I had asked you?!” InuYasha chuckled.

“InuYasha, that's enough.” Kagome half giggled, she was losing her own mental battle as well. “It isn't funny. You shouldn't be laughing.”

Sesshoumaru began growling under his breath. His hanyou half-brother was laughing at him. What was worse was that the human wench he traveled with was giggling; and the kitsune was laughing so hard that he could smell the unshed tears in his eyes.

“If that's where babies come from, why didn't you just send me back for the full-blooded youkai you wanted, instead of bitching that I'm a half-breed that you hate?” InuYasha barked out.

“Hold your tongue, hanyou,” Sesshoumaru almost barked out, trying to hide his annoyance.

InuYasha opened his mouth to verbally torture his brother some more, but the youkai began to walk away.

“Hey wait, where are you going?” Kagome asked the retreating lord.

“I'll come back for her later,” was all he said, and then he was gone, leaving Kagome to her explanation.

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When Sango and Miroku walked over the top of the hill, they spotted Kagome and Shippou below, waving to someone with long white hair. A little girl was also waving, and yelling “bye,” before turning to join the figure that had just entered the forest; both of them exchanged twin looks of perplexity, when Miroku shrugged, before continuing his journey to the bottom of the hill where their friends waited. Sighing, Sango followed along a few paces behind him and it wasn't long before they met up again with their friends.

“Miroku, Sango, your back!” exclaimed Shippou, and he took off to greet them half way up the hillside.

“Was that Sesshoumaru we just saw?” asked Miroku.

“Yes, it was,” replied Kagome.

“Who was the little girl?” asked Sango.

“That was Rin. She's the little girl who has been traveling with Sesshoumaru.”

Sango was mildly confused. She had heard that a little girl was traveling with the lord, but why did Sesshoumaru bring her here?

“Sesshoumaru brought her here so that I could explain to her where babies come from,” Kagome said, answering the unspoken question.

“Sesshoumaru told her they come from a baby store,” Shippou added dutifully.

“What?” said monk.

“Are you certain?” questioned the taijiya.”

Kagome giggled, shaking her head “yes.”

Miroku couldn't help it. He had to take this opportunity. He took Sango's hands in his own, looked her in the eyes, and with all seriousness said, “Sango, would you… go to the baby store with me?”

  

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A/N: How did I come up with the baby store? Well it's simple… it just popped into my head and I wrote it down. The first chapter was just a whim. I had read a couple fanfics about these two as a couple when Rin is older, and thought, how would the great lord of the west handle a question like that? this chapter however, was not so much a whim. It took me a while to write it, and this time I had a beta, who is really awesome.